win_share – Manage Windows shares

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win_share – Manage Windows shares

New in version 2.1.


Synopsis

  • Add, modify or remove Windows share and set share permissions.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • As this module used newer cmdlets like New-SmbShare this can only run on Windows 8 / Windows 2012 or newer.
  • This is due to the reliance on the WMI provider MSFT_SmbShare https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh830471 which was only added with these Windows releases.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments

caching_mode

string

added in 2.3

  • BranchCache
  • Documents
  • Manual

  • None
  • Programs
  • Unknown

Set the CachingMode for this share.

change

string

Specify user list that should get read and write access on share, separated by comma.

deny

string

Specify user list that should get no access, regardless of implied access on share, separated by comma.

description

string

Share description.

encrypt

boolean

added in 2.4

  • no

  • yes

Sets whether to encrypt the traffic to the share or not.

full

string

Specify user list that should get full access on share, separated by comma.

list

boolean

  • no

  • yes

Specify whether to allow or deny file listing, in case user has no permission on share. Also known as Access-Based Enumeration.

name

string / required

Share name.

path

path / required

Share directory.

read

string

Specify user list that should get read access on share, separated by comma.

state

string

  • absent
  • present

Specify whether to add present or remove absent the specified share.



Examples

# Playbook example
# Add share and set permissions
---
- name: Add secret share
  win_share:
    name: internal
    description: top secret share
    path: C:\shares\internal
    list: no
    full: Administrators,CEO
    read: HR-Global
    deny: HR-External

- name: Add public company share
  win_share:
    name: company
    description: top secret share
    path: C:\shares\company
    list: yes
    full: Administrators,CEO
    read: Global

- name: Remove previously added share
  win_share:
    name: internal
    state: absent

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description

actions

list

success

A list of action cmdlets that were run by the module.


Sample:

['New-SmbShare -Name share -Path C:\\temp']




Status

Red Hat Support

More information about Red Hat’s support of this module is available from this Red Hat Knowledge Base article.

Authors

  • Hans-Joachim Kliemeck (@h0nIg)
  • David Baumann (@daBONDi)

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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.8/modules/win_share_module.html